Alumni & Campus Stories

It’s been 15 years since the Fighting Illini football team hoisted the outright Big Ten Championship trophy after a 34-28 victory over Northwestern University at Memorial Stadium on Thanksgiving Day 2001. With captains such...

It stands on Race Street, on the very edge of campus—a survivor from a more genteel time when stately American elms formed lush, green archways over many small-town and suburban streets, their graceful branches...

In the early 1980s, an intrepid Illio writer, accompanied by a friend, ventured into “the bowels, the darker recesses of the Illini Union,” hoping to find out what kind of cellar dwellers frequented the...

Architectural Halloween It’s no trick. In fact, it’s spelled out in the Architecture 101 syllabus: “Create a Halloween costume that depicts architecture.” And so budding designers do, putting newly learned principles to work on...

Barry Houser and the Marching Illini As director of the Marching Illini, Barry Houser marches his 360-member band to his inner drummer and at events nationwide, such as New York City’s 2015 Macy’s Thanksgiving...

UI alumni have been returning “home” for a special fall weekend longer than any other alumni in the nation. Credit 1910 UI graduates Clarence Foss Williams and W. Elmer Ekblaw, who prior to commencement...

This fall, the University will induct the Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2018. The 21 inductees include some of greatest athletes and coaches in Fighting Illini history. “These men and women represent all...

A half-century ago, the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts opened as a facility of unprecedented scale and design for any educational institution anywhere. In the coming two seasons, the U of I’s remarkable...